Girls Season 4 Episode 3 recap.
Remember network crossover nights? Remember when Urkel would show up on Full House and it would blow your mind? I feel like that’s what’s going on here on Girls. Ray is on a mission to civilize, imbued with the spirit of Will McAvoy. Ranting about people who are ignorant and degenerates who owe him three thousand dollars, and telling Marnie that she is, of course she is, the mistress in Desi’s relationship, and just generally being the only one with a reasonable understanding of what constitutes adult behavior. Full Story

So this is new. You know how Olivia Pope on Scandal is based on a real woman? That’s Judy Smith. She’s everything you expect Olivia Pope to be and her resume includes advisor to people who are Heads of State and Executives of Major Corporations. She just advised on the Sony leak. She is the Big Time. Full Story

Girls Season 4 Episodes 1-2 recap
(Warning – content at the bottom of the page is NSFW)
Of course I watched that GIF all week. Who didn’t watch that GIF all week? It was especially welcome at three in the morning on Golden Globes night when nothing on the internet seemed new and exciting. Full Story

Taylor Swift performed Out Of The Woods on Kimmel last night. They shut down the block for her. I told you last week that I love the song – click here for a refresher – and that I can’t stop listening to it. Seeing her performing it is an entirely different experience. Full Story

Lena Dunham looked awesome. There are all kinds of caveats and I could list them, but they’re personal. I don’t personally like white shirts and I don’t personally love pink. Not the point.
She looked awesome because she decided to try on a look and, unlike in previous years, she seemed, in her face and makeup, to give it about exactly as much sort of gravity as it deserved. Full Story

Taylor Swift did not show at Coachella. She spent time in New York instead. At her new apartment. Making an appearance on SNL. And hanging with all her model friends like Karlie Kloss. Also, Lena Dunham was papped leaving her building yesterday.
Her ex-BFF Selena Gomez meanwhile continues to spend time with Kanye West’s fiance’s family. Full Story

Girls Season 3 Episode 12 recap
Oh my God, Ray used the term “assignations”. On purpose and casually. I am in love.
A few – really a bunch –of years ago, the popular term to describe your character-driven, often female-oriented show, was “dramedy”. Then, as the rise of the male anti-hero…rose, the idea of shows that were less than fantastic in scope fell out of fashion and the word dramedy, especially, became a dirty word. Full Story

Girls Season 3 Episode 10 recap
Unlike the last couple of episodes, which I hope weren’t aberrations, I don’t have as much to rhapsodize on this episode. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t bad – in fact some parts were really affecting – but it didn’t feel like it was as comfortably saying something new as the previous two weeks’ episodes. Full Story

Girls Season 3 Episode 7 recap
Girls, can you stop getting me to like you? That was not supposed to be my thing, okay? Remember back in the day, when you were trite and I was crotchety? This was your best episode ever, okay? Is that condescending of me?
Girls wastes no time this week pointing out that it owes a debt – that it’s happy to pay, to overextend the metaphor – to Sex And The City, which only had a few episodes in the Hamptons, really, but felt like it was there every episode. Full Story

Girls Season 3 Episode 3 (with some nods to 1 & 2) recap
Well, it happened. It’s inevitable. They wore me down, GIRLS. Or maybe Lena Dunham did. It’s so hard to tell, because they’re so inextricably one and the same. But somewhere along the way in the last break between Season 2 and now (or last week, yes, there were some Globes, OK?) something in the conversation changed. Full Story

I loved Lena Dunham’s dress at the Emmys – click here for a refresher – so much that I called it my Best Dressed on The Social the following day. And this is why I don’t understand what happened here.
I don’t understand why YELLOW TAFFETA is STILL SHOWING UP ON AWARD SHOW RED CARPETS. Full Story

Did not enjoy Lena Dunham’s haircut, but I get it. Did not enjoy her eyeliner, either, but it reminded me of a Halloween costume a couple of years ago when I went out as Taylor Momsen, so that got me thinking about what I’m going to do this year. Sometimes it’s the little things. Full Story

Tracy Anderson, trainer, friend of GOOP, and the human incarnation of every body-negative thought you ever had college, has set her sights on Lena Dunham. Someone from New York magazine asked Tracy about Girls and obviously the results were horrible. Drooling over Lena as a potential makeover, she says “I could transform her and I could transform her character. Full Story

Lena Dunham is on the cover of Marie Claire UK. I have zero expertise in magazine covers, like I don’t know what makes one sell or not, but this doesn’t appeal to me at all. It’s awkward, right?
Still, I think it’s cool that she’s on the cover, and the angle they’re taking is, if not exactly new (AT ALL) , still nice to hear from her. Full Story